Product Description

The TomTom RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver gets traffic information on the go, to your GO. For the one-off cost of the receiver you can get traffic updates and let your GO reroute you around congestion. By simply connecting the TomTom GO (510-710-910-OneXL) device to the RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver, you will automatically receive traffic information via the TMC connection. Once a journey is planned, traffic alerts which relate to the route are clearly displayed in the traffic bar on the right hand side of the screen. When the you tap an icon shown in the traffic bar, you will receive further information, such as the cause or kind of delay to traffic, such as an accident or traffic jam. RDS-TMC is available in: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. This accessory requires at least version 6.51 of the TomTom application. Connect your GO to your computer and use TomTom HOME to update your application automatically and for free

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25448 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: TomTom
• Model: 9V00.060
• Released on: 2006-09-25
• Dimensions: .39" h x .39" w x .39" l, .88 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
The TomTom RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver gets traffic information on the go, to your GO. For the one-off cost of the receiver you can get traffic updates and let your GO reroute you around congestion.By simply connecting the TomTom GO (510-710-910) device to the RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver, you will automatically receive traffic information via the TMC connection. Once a journey is planned, traffic alerts, which relate to the route are clearly displayed in the traffic bar on the right hand side of the screen. When you tap the icon shown in the traffic bar, you will receive further information, such as the cause or kind of delay to traffic, such as an accident or traffic jam.

Customer Reviews

Didn't work for me
To be honest I was looking for a cheap way of getting traffic information for my tomtom. Tomtom's traffic service is expensive for occasional use and given that I don't travel long distances in the rush hour I couldn't justify the cost. For a 50 pound one off charge the RDS/TMC receiver seemed like an ideal compromise!

I did some research on the internet and was fully aware that a lot of early adapters had had problems with this but the general consensus was to ensure that you were running the latest tomtom software (I was) and to lay the lead out fully since it acts as the ariel (I did).

So in theory I was all set; however, a 6 hours drive from London to Cornwall failed to generate a single traffic update, in fact it never received a signal at all sitting persistently in tuning mode (I know I played around with it as I sat in the traffic jam at Stonehenge for an hour).

A bit more research suggested that the unit could be manually tuned to classic fm's local signal based on the nearest transmitter (there are slight variations depending on which transmitter is being used). So I dutifully tried to manually scan to crystal palaces range and used it on an hour journey on the m25. Any updates? - nada, it again never progressed beyond scanning and I watched it hope all over the available frequency range without picking up a signal once!

I have no idea if I had a faulty unit or there is something fundamentally wrong with the concept - in principal it seems software updates to tom tom can improve this (I suspect it never looked in the right place in the fm frequency range for my locality). My patience surely tried it was returned to Amazon for a full refund.

Waste of money
This thing is a complete waste of money.
It spends most of its time "tuning" and not finding anything.
In 1 year has twice told me about a short delay I knew of - the latest error was a 3.5 hour delay and it didn't know anything was wrong!
Useless tosh that doesn't even come with instructions.
Do NOT by one!

Useless - 50% of the time!
I'm having a dispute with Tomtom about this product because they advertise it as being able to send traffic info to the Tomtom Go throughout the UK. In fact, from my experience the Receiver is only capable of sending traffic info to the Go in approximately 50% of the country. Tomtom say they are developing a new TMC receiver that will be available in the second quarter of 2007. Save your money and wait for the new receiver.